Socratic Seminar #28
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- MuSig2: Multisig with Schnorr
- musig2-py
- Safari Leaks
- Extracting the Private Key from Schnorr Signatures that reuse a Nonce
- Peter Todd review of OP_CTV
- Paper: Bitcoin investments and climate change: A financial and carbon intensity perspective
- Discussion by @stefanwouldgo
- Performance Benchmark of Electrum backend implementations
- Bitcoin Fungibility Graveyars
- Taproot Adoption
- Dandelion DoS vulnerability on MimbleWimble chains
- Thresh Metr MuSig
Miscellaneous
- Solo miner won a 6.25 BTC reward
- Taproot activates on Liquid
- Bank of Russia calls for ban on Bitcoin mining and trading
- Taproot funds burned on the bitcoin blockchain
- PathCoin
- Lightning Laisee
- CypherpunkPay, a simple BTCPay Server alternative
- DSN Bitcoin P2P Monitoring
- Google Cloud launches dedicated digital asset team
- Address Ownership Proof Protocol (AOPP)
- Andrew Chow named Bitcoin Core maintainer
- LNRouter Liquidity Marketplace
- Bitcoin Python Community
- Distributed Charge
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Event: Fulmo Lightning Network Hackday Istanbul. Feburary 25-27
- Event: Advancing Bitcoin London. March 3rd-4th
- Sparkassen eröffnen Richtungsstreit um Bitcoin-Handel
- Bitcoin-Boom im Libanon - Die Verlockung der lautlosen Macht
Podcasts
- This Week in Lightning Ep 3 with Special Guest Bastien
- Chaincode Podcast - Block Building with Clara and Murch
- Dr. Bitcoin Podcast
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
- TXHASH + CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY in lieu of CTV and ANYPREVOUT
- Improving RBF Policy
- CTV BIP review
- CTV dramatically improves DLCs
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP 326: Anti-fee-sniping protection with nSequence in taproot transactions to improve privacy for off-chain protocols #1269
- BOLT 1: adds remote address to optional init_tlvs (IP discovery) #917
Bitcoin Core
- ARMv8 SHA2 Intrinsics
- Add getdeploymentinfo RPC #23508
- wallet: Allow users to specify input weights when funding a transaction #23201
- doc: testnet3 was not reset and is doing BIP30 checks again #23882
LND
Eclair
- Activate onion messages #2133
- Replaceable txs fee bumping #2113
- More aggressive confirmation target when low on utxos #2141